*WARNING: Daily use of the WTHR™ App may cause bouts of joy, happiness and in some extreme and severe cases, audible gratitude from your eyeballs. In some case studies users also gained acute symptoms of good design choices and a bias towards well made things. Results may vary.

I own several Rams designed radios and if look and feel would be all that mattered, this would fit right in.

However, something being pretty doesn’t equate to it being well designed.

The creator stated that he specifically set out to follow Rams’ principles of design. This app doesn’t. Instead, it copies some of the external expressions of the design of Dieter Rams, specifically the iconic white look created for Braun, but none of the design principles that led to that expression.

A part from the actual fact that Design has no strict rules, if we consider Dieter Rams’ innovative thinking I don’t think we can consider all the skeumorphic trend of today going in the same direction of minimalism and honesty in design.

I think blogs with an audience power like Swiss-miss should take care of this aspect instead of just promoting cute things that are only inspired by aesthetics

Hi, I actually installed the app and it’s very hard to use. The contrast between the text/icons and the background is very low, making the 7-day forecast unreadable.

@Mo: the question is really one of usefulness; most people will not switch between F & C, and the “reload” button doesn’t really do anything. The two main controls in the UI are not useful; why are they included? For novelty, I guess.

The developer is invoking Dieter Rams, but this is simply a poorly designed app from a usability perspective.

Just installed the app and it’s telling me it’s sunny and 95 here (it’s currently 10pm). Maybe it’s just expected that anyone reading swiss-miss would have an iphone 4 (i love this site and say that in the kindest possible way).

Really?If Rams were ever have designed such a thing it would have more useful and legible. I can’t read the forecast numbers unless I’m out of direct light. It is different from other weather apps, not as useful, and IMHO, not worthy of associating it with Dieter Rams.